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dec 30, 1497 - "Bonfires Of The Vanities"

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Savonarola, of Florentine, Italy encouraged artists and writers to bring there work to be burnt if deemed inappropriate. Paintings such as of nude people were burnt. He then threw another bonfire where he was hung on a cross and burnt his own works.

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dec 30, 1497
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~ 528 years ago